Suffolkgal

All booking open and this programme starts in a number of weeks … you’d think maybe by now?

There’s a lot of final absolution in ballet! 

I’m afraid you’d have to nail me to my seat 

Hilariously while doing a bit of digging about the original story, inspired by my forum peers, I saw it described as a novel about two randy teenagers! Thank God for MacMillan…

Teary again! Thanks Rob …

Kind of sums it up though! Thankyou for sharing 

I hope someone got a picture of them in each others arms at the first curtain call. Mainly because I saw it through weepy eyes but also because I had to tank it for the train. 

I remember Wayne Eagling tanking across the stage to grab his Manon just as she was about to plank. He said at the SD she was meant to fall forward on 8 and she went on 1! No harm done thankfully 

Just watching the final episode… i started going regularly two years after this was made - the faces I remember! Sooo young makes me feel

ancIent… but a joy to watch 

Just pulling my thoughts about this wonderful series and the discussion elsewhere about tempi together. Watching Nureyev and Seymour doing the Beauty pdd in episode 1 (again). Oh my lord that was speedy! Because of her legacy with Ashton and MacMillan it’s easy for me at least to forget what a lovely classical dancer Seymour was. I’m so delighted to be able to watch this again. It was a highlight of my balletomane youth!

Just beautiful I thought … so wonderful to see the layers build up and the minutiae of what ballet means. I love that laura mentioned the amphitheatre view! Thanks from those of us who always sit up there!

So grateful watching now on you tube 

You might all want to write to Suffolk county council which is cutting its funding to arts and archives … the drop in the ocean to them of 500k which will have a massive effect of the organisations affected. We’re fighting…

It’s not new music but I remember years ago the lovely, late, mark freeman at a ballet assoc event said he had choreographed a piece to ravel’s Pavane. I think that would be lovely. Someone at the same meeting mentioned Malcolm Arnold .. it’s all gentle but melodic. I love his English dances … 

oh  lord really?

I’ve been telling all my friends with young ones who love dance to watch magic of dance on stream ... nice pieces in Vienna concert - I adore Austria so always a treat to see it on TV. Longed to be in Bad Ischl!  I saw Eno Peci years ago at the staatsoper in Onegin so good to see him this morning. There were some very odd decisions on male costumes though! 

I’m sure there’s all sorts of nuances - number and length of rehearsals for example and the risk of injury. It’s certainly been a bit of a nutcracker Merry go round this season but so lucky we are that so many can step

up

Peggy Wood ... sorry I did laugh when I thought of Peggy mount as the mother abbess! You’re right she was dubbed though in common with Plummer ... re American in Paris ... interesting that Ross MacGibbon was involved... it wasn’t great was it!

Re the music comments - in Alan Bennett’s the history Boys is there not a line advising a would be oxbridge candidate not to say they like Mozart? (Everybody does!) and suggesting Bartok instead?! It’s going to take a very special dancer to get me to sit through different drummer again! It’s one of Schoenberg’s most agreeable pieces of music but I never took to the piece even with best beloved mr eagling!

What with ticket prices trains general

hassle of ballet excursions from Suffolk... I’m waiting on the casting. 

I was thinking the same!

In the theatre shows have been stopped for this. I was at Rent years ago when Anthony Rapp spotted a phone and stopped the show. It’s very distracting apart from anyone else. I think I’d have dobbed her in! When there is proper filming then the company, creatives and artists have some control over where it is used. I love the curtain call pics and snips though that’s very different I reckon. The way these are shared by artists shows I think they are fine with it.

I sense the dreaded hand of AI

Love pineapple poll one of my earliest memories! checkmate is of its time but striking and again in our country’s cultural heritage. I find both different drummer and Judas tree very challenging but would never ask for them to be dropped because of my sensibilities... Chinese laundry scene in Bugsy Malone? Broken Blossoms? Pantomime? Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi in Vicious? Where do you start and where would you stop? Ballet often requires one to take things on trust and in context ... this is an interesting discussion though. We make up our own minds here and by and large respect each other’s views. Would it were so in the wider world of the arts where others like to tell us when we should be offended!

Can’t believe I’m quietly sniffling watching this on my phone! My favourite scene ...